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Originally Posted by EricLandes
Stross pretty consistently slants his writing as anti-Amazon. I don't know from where this (un-?)intentional bias originates.
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I haven't read enough of his blog to know whether he had an anti-Amazon bias before the Amazon-MacMillan game of chicken back at then end of January. At the time, he made it quite clear that he was upset that Amazon was playing chicken at the expense of MacMillan authors, all over something that's currently less than 1% of sales. As near as I can tell, this only affected sales of his Merchant Princes series in paper editions, and that MacMillan wasn't even selling any ebooks of the series at the time. And, even Stross notes that MacMillan is still not selling all of the books in the series as ebooks.
My guess is that Stross did not lose very much income over the 1-2 weeks where Amazon was not selling his Merchant Princes series in paper, but the fact that Amazon is willing to stop selling all of a publisher's product as a negotiating point (and it's not the first time they've done it), makes them evil in his eyes.
It apparently doesn't matter that all of the ebook retailers relying on Ingram have not been able to buy Agency 5 ebooks for 6 weeks and counting, as long as the big 3 ebook retailers (Amazon, B&N and Sony) can.